Railway construction



May 8, 1923. v 1,454,10'1' C. BELANGER ET AL RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION FiledApril 8, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Qjrc'zle Bezangr INVENTOR 5 at their endshave their sides enlarged, the

I Patented May's,

To all whom it may concern."

, -Be1it known that "we, GYRILLE- and JOHN GARON, citizens of the'United States, residing at Quimby, in thecountyot Aroostook and StateofMaine, have invent ed new and useful Improvements'inRailway reference'to railway construction.

Our object is to produce a simple, cheap andefi'ective joint for railwayrails, wherein the employment of fish plates, angle bars and analogousdeviceswill be-entirely dispensedwith. v

The foregoing, and other objects which will appear as the nature of theinvention is better understood, maybe accomplished by a construction,combination and operative, associationof parts, suchhas is disclosed byand which .1 t position'in the the drawings which accompany form part ofthis specification.

In the drawings:

' Figure 4'is a sectional view on the line- 4-4of-Figure 2.- I v Figure5 is a perspective view ofone of the rail ends.

Figure 6 is asimilar 'view of a cooperating pair of connecting plates.

i The rails B have their body portions of the ordinary construction,each including a head 1, a base flange2 and a web 3 connecting the headand flange. The rails, however,

outer-faces of the said enlargements being flush with the sides of theheads. 'The enlarged portionsof the rails are channeled longitudinallyin a line with the outer faces of the webs 3 of ,the rails,thusproviding pockets 4. The upper walls of'the pockets are in-a linewith the under faces of the :heads. ofthe rails and the lower walls ofthe pockets are in a line withthe upper faces of I g thickened and theouter .walls of the thlckthe flanges of the rails." The outer walls ofthe pockets are parallel with the outer faces of the webs, theouter;wal1s.of the pockets I being, fordistinction,indicated bythenuineral 5. The walls 5* of the enlargements critiinnisnnnnennnnijwas oanmmor vnhhw hmh RAILWAY cons'iritncrron. j

Constructions, of which thefollowingsiis a. specification. 1 v g Ourpresent invention 1 has and the confronting edges of the plates are keys14:, contactingwith'the upper and lower v walls of the notches '13willspread the plates away from each other, wcausing the upp'er plate tocontact with the upperwall of the .IHaving Application'filedApril8,1922. .Serial No. 550,828". I

which align of the, rails.

H The s n eshf the railsjarevreceivedl said chair restingon a supportingtiefl10,.

and is spiked thereto' M When the rail ends arebrought againsti "ff eachother we insert through the opp'ositei w ends ofthe aligning pockets 4:of the respece' tive rails R plates. The plates are in the indicated bythe numeral 11 respectively,

arranged at opposite anglesQThus' the plates are wedge-shaped. The angleedges of the plates are, for distinction;indicatedgbyfthe T numeral 12.}The "angle edges 12 of the plates are pi'ovlded with" notches 13designed to align when the plates are brought to one ably haveouterslotted endsandbeing conl or pockets have openings fo therethroughr with openings} in theweb's ii nature 3 of connecting members and areposed 1n cooperatingpalrs. The platesyare P k and to registerwith I theOPGHiHg G a d W soarranged Wg v Pass r u the p gs he through the Inotches, key members 14, The," keys prefer-1 1-,:

structedof malleable inaterial; theseends 1 5 7 v I one of the walls 51provided by the enlarge, ment or pocketon one side of the rails. -Thepocket and the lower plate to'contact with are spread away from eachother against the lower wall of the pocketpa-nd in this mannerit will benotedthat the rails are not.

only effectively connected; but are supported I at their meeting ends bythe pl an eys described 1 the h invention, we.

claim h '1." Rails having their ends.provided'iwith f aligning pockets,plates shaving" opposed v beveled cOnfr ntingIedgeS received in the""f 1pockets, and Ineans passingthrough. thef'j pockets and plates for.c cnitacting"theplates to force the same away'from each other and 1 incontacting engagement with the Ire'spec-f 1 tive, upper and lower wallsof the pockets.

2. Rails having'their sides, at their "ends ened portions being'fiu'shwith the sides of the headsiof the -rails,', saidbthickened porthe rails and in a li-newith theunder face of the headandvthe upperfaces ofi the basesm of therails-t0 provide pockets; :plateswar rangedin pairs and inserted in the pockets,

said pockets and. ...p1ates whavipguopenings therethrough designed "'to'align, and key members passing through the OPQIILH$YIEQIYW spreading theplates away from each other to cause the sameltoflcontaetwith themespec-'tiVGi upper-5. and lower we'llnfi the pecketiand 101- also securing theplates in the pockets. 10

In testim0I y Where0,f We aflix our signa tures.

CYRILLE BELANGER. JOHN CARON.

